Castigations [noun]
Definition of Castigations:
punishment
Sentence/Example of Castigations:
I came here with the intention of giving you a castigation for your impertinent mention of a lady.
And forthwith were summoned the two burly officials whose unpopular duty it was to administer castigation.
After this castigation he spent the night in the crypt, fasting and barefooted.
And when that shallow charlatan sneered at him in print, he left to Boileau the castigation that was so thoroughly given.
The timely castigation had been administered by a police-officer appointed to superintend the funeral.
Are there not men above the class of wife-beaters who indulge in fault-finding, "nagging," and other forms of tongue-castigation?
I have written a castigation of Brougham for the Leader, and shall be glad if your sympathy goes along with it.
The stick, like Indra's spear, returned to its owner's hand on the completion of the innkeeper's castigation.
We venture even to administer reproof and castigation, where, perhaps, we had venerated almost to idolatry.
The punishment inflicted is usually a severe castigation, and the destruction by fire of his cabin.